Visual Studio 2012: Framework does not meet the minimum required version

05Sep

Today I tried to upgrade my Visual Studio 2012 RC to the RTM version. But I got an error saying that i do not have installed the required .NET Framework.

The .Net Framework installed on this machine does not meet the minimum required version: 4.5.50709.

So I thought that maybe the problem is that in order to install the RTM of Visual Studio I have to install the RTM version of the .NET Framework. Therefore I thought that if will I download the .Net Framework 4.5 and install it I can proceed the Visual Studio installation process. I was wrong.But after starting the setup file of the .NET Framework it shows me following error:

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is already a part of this operating system. You do not need to install the .NET Framework 4.5 redistributable.

Well that’s strange. Never mind. I could not install the RTM version of 4.5 and therefore I cannot install the RTM of Visual Studio.

After some web researches I got the answer that in order to install the final version of Visual Studio 2012 I have to have the final version of Windows 8.Everybody that runs a Windows 8 Release Preview (or lower) needs to wait until they gets a full copy or they can download the 90 days trial version of Windows 8.